Scientists
Scientists, engineers from India, US can widen research under special technology fund: Indian Ambassador
Scientists and engineers from India and the US can widen their opportunities for research under the COVID-19 Virtual Networks that is being developed as part of the India-US Science and Technology Endowment Fund(IUSTEF), Indian Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu has said. Speaking at a webinar titled India-US Partnership, healthcare and medical research, Sandhu said scientists …
Scientists Visualize the Largest and Most Complex CRISPR System
CRISPR technology can be used to edit genes and revolutionised the scientific world when it was first introduced. CRISPR-Cas9 is likely the most known CRISPR-system and popularly known as the gene scissor. That is just one out of the many various CRISPR systems that exist. Now researchers from the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) have …
Lake Titicaca giant frog: Scientists join forces to save species
Image copyright D. Alarcon Five scientific institutions are joining forces in a cross-border effort to preserve the Lake Titicaca giant frog (Telmatobius culeus). The frog is one of the world’s largest exclusively aquatic frogs and lives in the waters of Lake Titicaca, which straddles the border between Peru and Bolivia. The aim of the project …
Scientists shed light on how the blackest fish in the sea ‘disappear’
Image copyright Karen Osborn/Smithsonian Image caption The ultra-black Pacific black dragon is a very difficult animal to photograph An ocean mystery – how the blackest fish in the deep sea are so extremely black – has been solved in a study that began with a very bad photograph. “I couldn’t get a good shot – …
Coronavirus gender gap: Scientists try to explain why men are much more likely to die of COVID-19
When Florida couple Cecilia and Marvin Lawton were infected with the coronavirus, their daughter Briana worried her mother was most at risk because of her history of high blood pressure, diabetes and respiratory illness. But as Cecilia recovered at home, Marvin lost his battle to the virus. He died in the hospital at age 60. …
New breakthrough in ‘spintronics’ could boost high speed data technology
Scientists have made a pivotal breakthrough in the important, emerging field of spintronics – which could lead to a new high speed energy efficient data technology. An international team of researchers, including the University of Exeter, has made a revolutionary discovery that has the potential to provide high speed, low power-usage for some of the …
Scientists say strain of coronavirus dominant around the world is different than what was seen in Wuhan
A strain of the coronavirus that was first seen in Italy is now the dominant strain of the virus, a group of scientists said Thursday. In an article published by the peer-reviewed science journal Cell, researchers working with the Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group announced that the new strain “has become the most prevalent form in the …
New sequencing technology will help scientists decipher disease mechanisms — ScienceDaily
New technologies capable of sequencing single molecules in fine detail will help scientists better understand the mechanisms of rare nucleotides thought to play an important role in the progression of some diseases. A review paper, led by a scientist at the University of Birmingham, describes how emerging sequencing technologies will transform our understanding of these …
Government plans new office to attract scientists to UK
Image copyright Science Photo Library A new body, called “Office for Talent”, will be set up in No 10 to encourage scientists, researchers and innovators to come to the country, the government has said. It will be tasked with making immigration “simple, easy and quick” for those wanting to move to the UK. The initiative …
Scientists Discover The South Pole Is Warming 3x Faster Than The Rest of The Planet
The South Pole has warmed three times faster than the rest of the planet in the last 30 years due to warmer tropical ocean temperatures, new research showed Monday. Antarctica’s temperature varies widely according to season and region, and for years it had been thought that the South Pole had stayed cool even as the …
